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> From    Bill Harshaw
>
> Subject: A Question of Genetics
>
>  1.  I have Parkinson's Disease
>
>  2. My mother and maternal grandmother each had
> Parkinson's Disease
>
>  3. My father's sister was likely schizophrenic.
> The only description we
> ever had of her medical condition was that he had
> ‘nerves'.   This woman was
> born in 1899.
>
>  4. My wife's aunt (a fraternal twin of her mother)
> had both Graves' disease
> and Multiple Sclerosis.
>
>  5. My wife's father had both Graves' Disease and
> Ankylosing Spondylytis
>
>  6. Our son has ulcerative colitis
>
>  7. My wife's mother is subject to depression as is
> my wife and two of three
> of her siblings and several of their offspring are
> subject to depression as
> well
>
>  8. Our daughter has an eating disorder, is subject
> to depression and is a
> substance abuser
>
>  Question Does anyone know what is likely to happen
> next?


You are a typical case of a statistical random distribution, except
that randomness seldom shows up in a very small test sample like
yours.  I don't know what the alternative might be, but I would
probably not choose it.  What's next could be determined on a
roulette wheel just a accurately as any method.
Take advantage of any good from all this and enjoy it.  Listen
to Bach, or Mozart, or whatever.

Michel